Greetings,
I unforturnately was just one or two below the line on the waiting list to get the last Inca 570 Jointer-Planer that Garrett Wade will be receiving.
Does anyone know of a comparable machine (similar capacity but light weight)? What about the Mafell AD280 – any experience?
My main problem is that I have a basement workshop without an exterior entrance – I do not think I can safely move anything heavier than ~300 lbs down those stairs. Can the heavier machines be partially disassembled (tables removed) to make lighter pieces to get down the stairs?
JM
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Consider yourself lucky. Inca's a pretty expensive toy in my experience. I've spent time working with various Inca tools and lots of other brands in various shops and thought the Inca's were the lightest duty for excessive prices. Some dis-assembly is certainly possible to get machines in basement shops.
Rick
Yes, bigger machines can be partially disassembled. After all, they didn't hatch whole. They were constructed in smaller pieces, assembled, and adjusted. You can take them apart, move them, and re-assemble them. The job isn't for the faint of heart, but you can do it. For instance, I've got a 12" Hammer joint-planer. I've done enough tuning on it to be fairly familiar with its construction and adjustment. I think I could remove the tables in less than an hour, and re-install and adjust them in less than three hours. I'd probably want a helper; even one table is pretty heavy.
There's also piano movers. Those guys can move really heavy objects in and out of homes without damaging either the home or the piano. A jointer-planer isn't much different from a piano. So maybe hiring the job out is a good approach.
>> There's also piano movers.
And if the piano movers don't want the job, the people who do this for a living are called millwrights. If there aren't any in your yellow pages, try Google.
Riggers do the moving and Millwrights have the set up expertise. Pretty pricey for the homeshop though.
Rick
>> Pretty pricey for the homeshop though.
I wouldn't be surprised. There's a story in one of Guy Lautard's Mchinist's Bedside Readers about a guy saying it was well worth the $300 he paid to have a vertical milling machine (~2500 lb.) moved down his basement stairs. That was 15+ years ago, and I doubt if it's gotten any cheaper since then.
There was also a story about a guy sending the wife out shopping, poking a crane in the living room window, lowering a machine through a hole in the floor and having everything patched before she got home, but I didn't believe that one.
I recently picked up a Rojek combo planer/jointer. 537lbs! The tables (3) came off with simple hand tools. This left approximately 400lbs of machine to move. Myself and a neighbor were able to move the machine. I would suggest a third person however if you need to negotiate stairs. We had a level in situation.
Been very happy with the Rojek. 12" capacity, easy adjustment and relatively compact.
Good Luck
Michael
With much help, I got an old (1922 or so) 12"jointer into my interior staircased basement. Took it all apart. The 3 leg pedestal was by far the heaviest component, at about 500-600 lbs., and 4 guys carried it. Reassembled in basement.
2 of us got a 770 lb. planer down the basement. Did it with a 2x10 of maple across the back of the masonry house, with a come along, one click at a time. Still didn't take an hour.
You can do it! Just be careful.
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